In 1969, the United States led the world with giant widebody commercial aircraft as Pan Am became the launch customer for the Boeing 747 Jumbo. The Boeing 747 was enlarged in subsequent variants and proved a massive success both in the domestic US and international export markets. Fast-forward to today,Continue Reading
UK solid-state battery technology developer Ilika has verified the high performance of its Goliath batteries manufactured via an industrially scaled process at The UK Battery Industrialisation Centre. This confirms the battery is on track on its route to market, the company said. The announcement follows Ilika’s announcement in February reportingContinue Reading
Scania has launched a new variant on the battery-electric bus platform the company introduced in 2023. The new low-entry 6×2*4 variant is “designed to meet the demands of medium- and heavy-duty operations, and with an increased passenger capacity compared to the existing 4×2 LE BEV, it is suitable for city,Continue Reading
System76 has just announced the 7th alpha release of its Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment. As with earlier alphas, the focus remains on adding the features planned for inclusion in its first stable release (dubbed Epoch 1). It’s always worth tempering expectations: COSMIC’s first release won’t feature-match the newest versions ofContinue Reading
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink broadband satellites from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on April 24, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX continues its steady pace of Starlink launches, ever growing the company’s orbital internet constellation. A Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX’s Starlink 6-74 mission Thursday night, April 24, out of Florida’sContinue Reading
This Hubble Space Telescope image captures the beauty of the moth-like planetary nebula NGC 2899. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, STScI) As scientists and space enthusiasts commemorate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in orbit, the mission team joined in by delivering a fresh collection of awe-inspiring images. Launched on April 24, 1990 aboard the spaceContinue Reading
Wondering how you can try COSMIC desktop in Arch Linux? Here’s how. The Cosmic desktop environment, developed by System76 for their Pop!_OS distribution, offers a new desktop experience for Linux Fans. It is built using Rust at the core and features all the modern necessities of a desktop environment. WhileContinue Reading
Leaks can be both embarrassing and aggrevating for any content producer, though we often see the most anger over this sort of thing coming from large corporate interests. The video game space is lousy with examples of this, but there is perhaps no more notoriously draconian respondant to leaks thanContinue Reading
Chinese electric truck OEM Windrose Technology has officially launched its battery-electric R700 Class 8 tractor in the US. The company plans to open an assembly plant in Georgia in 2025. The Windrose R700 earned its certificate of conformity from the EPA in January, certifying that it meets federal fuel economyContinue Reading
Sponsored by Starline. JE Dunn Construction, one of America’s largest general contractors, decided to install an electric vehicle charging station in the parking garage next to its world headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. JE Dunn faced the following challenges when designing the infrastructure to support the charging stations: Installing powerContinue Reading
The Delhi transport department is set to add 2,080 electric vehicles to its bus fleet over the year, an official said on Monday. It currently operates around 7,000 buses in the city. But around 1,000 of those are set to get off road this year with some already being retired…Continue Reading
Collecting data from solo players is a Far Cry from being necessary, says noyb For anyone who’s ever been frustrated by the need to go online to play a single-player video game, the European privacy specialists at noyb have heard you, and they’ve filed a complaint against Ubisoft in AustriaContinue Reading
Something broke on Windows 11 24H2, but dev who discovered it tells El Reg this time Microsoft’s not to blame Microsoft’s Windows 11 24H2 update is frustrating some users, but it isn’t the operating system at fault this time. Instead, it’s down to a 20-year-old error in Grand Theft Auto:Continue Reading